Chapter 99: Players Following the Demon King's Footsteps

Somewhere on the second floor of the labyrinth, a gloomy and dark cave.

A scorpion half a person tall was lurking in the shadows, motionless like a corpse.

Just then, a set of uninvited footsteps suddenly broke into its territory.

Sensing the approach of prey, the twelve eyes scattered all over its body opened instantly, searching for the prey's tracks like a radar.

It was almost in an instant—

Relying on its perception of the vibration source, it quickly locked onto the prey's position!

Without the slightest hesitation, the giant scorpion lunged forward in a stride, and its tail, like a hook-sickle spear, stabbed out along with its lightning-fast figure.

The poison needle connected to its tail was enough to make a Gold-tier knight lose the ability to act.

As long as the prey was stabbed by it, there was absolutely no possibility of survival! However, something unexpected happened; the sensation of the poison needle piercing flesh did not come from the tail, but rather felt more like it had passed through a hollow skeleton.

"Chi chi chi—"

A trembling wail came from under its carapace; realizing something was wrong, it tried to retreat, but it was already too late.

A stone bullet shot out like a cannonball, directly hitting its forehead, smashing the hard carapace into pieces, and passing right through from beneath its tail.

Corrosive liquid spilled all over the ground.

Before it could even let out a scream, the half-person-tall scorpion died and fell to the ground.

Not far away.

Luo Yan, standing in the cave, still maintained his spell-casting posture until Sarah, who was responsible for reconnaissance, confirmed there was no danger ahead, at which point he put away the magic wand in his hand and moved forward.

Ever since he realized the essence of transcendent power, he had been consciously practicing non-chanting spellcasting.

And with day-to-day practice, he had benefited quite a bit; some spells with simple elemental structures and single effect types could now be skillfully released without chanting.

And the power was even a tier higher than the original chanted spells! This was a mystery Luo Yan discovered by accident while constantly studying the essence of "transcendent power."

When he was familiar enough with a spell, besides not needing to rely on the original spellcasting path, he could also make fine adjustments on the original framework of elemental arrangement.

For example, imagining the wind blade filled with oxygen!

Or for another example, imagining the composition of the rock bullet was mainly granite, and adding the power of wind to it!

The boundary of this fine-tuning was very vague; a slight carelessness could cause the spell to disintegrate.

This was a bit like letting go of the handlebars while riding a bicycle; an unskilled person would fall to the ground in an instant, while a skilled person could even handle turns with ease.

Even with years of magic learning experience, it was difficult for Luo Yan to specifically describe this feeling.

Unlike the inscription magic system, the elemental magic system had been an abstract thing since its birth, and with the changes of the times, it had gone further and further down the path of abstraction.

However, although he could not describe this feeling in words, its effect was obvious.

Once the boundary between success and failure of spell fine-tuning was figured out, manipulating elemental power would be as simple as breathing.

It was not just the perception of elements; the affinity with elements would also rise by more than just a little! Just as Luo Yan was carefully savoring the feeling of "playing with elements in the palm of his hand," Sarah's excited voice suddenly came from not far ahead.

"Demon King! Treasure chest!"

Perhaps because they were going on a long journey, Sarah seemed particularly energetic today.

Of course, having said that, she was not lax in vigilance; when it was time to be serious, she was even more serious than usual.

Hearing that lively voice, Luo Yan smiled and said in a teasing tone.

"That's right, treasure chest, so dear student Sarah, think carefully, who would put a box here for no reason."

"!"

Seeming to realize her stupidity, Sarah's face was instantly dyed with red clouds.

Looking past the cat ears folded into airplane wings, Luo Yan glanced at the old actor standing in the corner, and even guessed its breed.

"It seems you already have the answer."

Actually, this kind of box also had about a 50% chance of producing good things; after all, fishing required bait.

However, the treasure chest in front of him was obviously not the latter—what was inside was merely the bad taste of the little demons.

If any unlucky kid opened the treasure chest, the potion that dissolved fabric would instantly make them lose their defense...

Re-summoning a skeleton soldier temp, Luo Yan controlled it to step forward and take out the magic crystal inside the giant scorpion, and then threw it into the money bag he carried with him like an adventurer.

All this was to make him look more like an adventurer, so that he could mix into the safe zone of the Adventurers' Guild without revealing his identity and mingle with the adventurers there.

"Let's leave this treasure chest to those in need, let's not worry about it."

Just as Luo Yan and Sarah continued to move toward the lower floors of the labyrinth, Yiye Zhiqiu, Watching Hu Wan, and others who were leveling up somewhere on the same floor were in a bitter battle.

Deep in the deep and dark cave, a giant centipede was like a runaway giant python, hissing angrily from its massive mouth pincers while charging toward the undead rat that dared to challenge its majesty.

That hard carapace was as solid as steel, even capable of immunizing against the full-force strike of a Black Iron-tier swordsman! And those massive mouth pincers were even more deadly; it was said that even steel could be easily snapped! As the "overlord" of the second floor of the labyrinth, the giant centipede's individual strength could be said to be the ceiling of the second floor of the labyrinth, and its impeccable physical defense and over-mode melee ability were something even little demons were unwilling to easily provoke.

And it wasn't just little demons.

Ordinary adventurers, unless they had accepted a specific commission, would basically walk around it when they encountered this guy! Although the magic crystal dropped by this guy was big and valuable, brushing a few more split-mouth ants had the same effect, and the danger coefficient was far lower than challenging a giant centipede.

From an economic perspective, this was indeed true, but from the perspective of "experience," it was a completely different matter.

Players' motivation for brushing monsters was different from adventurers; the latter were for making money, while the former were more for experience.

With the continuous improvement of character levels, the experience provided by other monsters on the second floor of the labyrinth to Yiye Zhiqiu and Watching Hu Wan was becoming more and more limited.

Especially since they had recently grouped with two teammates to serve as the front row, the experience points now had to be divided among four people.

And if they wanted to maintain the rhythm of upgrading, they had to challenge more powerful monsters.

It was precisely because of this—

When Yiye Zhiqiu had enough confidence, he immediately cast his gaze on this big guy.

Facing the storm-like attack, Watching Hu Wan calmly rolled to open the distance, his figure moving as fast as a ghost, not giving the mouth pincers any chance to hit him, while maintaining an appropriate distance so as not to lose the monster's aggro.

For him, who had experienced thousands of battles big and small, this was simply too easy!

As the target entered the attack area, the lizardmen and skeleton sword-shield soldiers lurking behind the rocks rushed forward decisively.

Tauren Warrior: "Pig-head! Attack its head!"

Pig-head Warrior: "Ao ao ao!!"

A giant axe slashed at the top of the centipede's head, just getting stuck at the root of the latter's mouthparts.

The centipede subconsciously retracted its mouth pincers, but the axe was too thick to be snapped, and it immediately wanted to retreat.

The quick-eyed Tauren Warrior didn't give it a chance, charging at its upright abdomen with a shield, the blade passing through the fluttering joints, stabbing wildly at its abdomen.

However, it was a pity that compared to Bond, he was ultimately twelve buffs short; a round of scraping didn't cause fatal damage, even though it made the centipede grin in pain.

"Hiss—!"

The giant centipede hissed, twisted its mouth pincers and threw the lizardman holding the two-handed axe away, then the dozen or so joints in front of it kicked violently, kicking the skeleton carrying the shield away.

"Damn it—!"

The Tauren Warrior rolled on the ground several times before stopping.

If it weren't for his Black Iron peak strength, his skeleton frame would probably have fallen apart!

"This guy must be at least Bronze—spit! Gold!" The Pig-head Knight climbed up from the ground limping, just picked up the axe, and a creepy feeling crawled up his spine. He saw the centipede directly ignoring the Tauren Warrior who didn't have a piece of meat on his body, staring straight at himself, who had the most meat.

The Pig-head Knight panicked, only hating himself for being cheap and choosing this unlucky race.

This gecko-man, besides having two extra brothers, could be said to be full of debuffs!

If he had known he was going to challenge a giant centipede, he would have chosen a little demon! "Damn! Don't come over here!"

Sensing the prey's fear, the giant centipede's mouth pincers made a hissing, ferocious laugh.

However, just as it intended to bite toward the lizardman in front of it, a dazzling light suddenly broke into its field of vision.

Before it could react, the huge fireball hit its face.

The burning sensation of the flames made it let out a miserable scream.

Yiye Zhiqiu, who completed the spellcasting, didn't stop, and immediately threw another fireball, cooperating with the oil bottle Watching Hu Wan threw into the air, playing a combo.

Chi la—! With the sound of the glass breaking, the explosive fire oil instantly bloomed into fire rain all over the sky.

Drenched by the burning fire rain, the giant centipede's body turned into a sea of fire in an instant, and it fell heavily to the ground in a painful twist.

Watching the monster that was no longer moving, Watching Hu Wan, hiding behind the rock, breathed a sigh of relief and gave a thumbs up toward Yiye Zhiqiu.

"Well done!"

Yiye Zhiqiu smiled and made a gesture.

"You too."

Watching the dust settle on the battle, the Tauren Warrior climbed up from the ground and said with a wry smile.

"Sorry... I dragged you guys down."

Unlike his good brother Pig-head, he belonged to the type that cared more about face.

"Where are you talking about," Yiye Zhiqiu smiled and said in a gentle tone, "If it weren't for your support, I wouldn't have been able to cast spells so easily."

This was the truth.

He and Watching Hu Wan had tried not to have a front row before, but the facts proved that doing so was still too risky.

At least for now, he hadn't found a way to throw fireballs while releasing slashes.

Those were two completely different power systems, and the difficulty was a tier higher than releasing fireball spells and water ball spells at the same time! With his current proficiency and panel attributes, he hadn't reached the level of being able to multitask.

"Exactly, cannon fodder also has the value of cannon fodder!"

The Pig-head Knight, who had escaped death, walked over from the side, grinning and reaching out to pull the Tauren Warrior up from the ground, not blushing at all.

"If it weren't for my jump slash, could our brother Yiye take the head so smoothly?"

Yiye Zhiqiu smiled, while Watching Hu Wan was too lazy to bother.

Looking at this shameless guy, the Tauren Warrior complained angrily.

"You're so embarrassed!"

The Pig-head Knight grinned.

"What's there to be embarrassed about... damn, I upgraded!"

It wasn't just him who upgraded.

Just now, Yiye Zhiqiu also discovered the changes in his attribute panel.

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ID: Yiye Zhiqiu

Race: Skeleton

Soul Level: Bronze (Level cap LV30)

Level: LV. 15 (+1)

Constitution: 11 Strength: 9 Agility: 6 Intelligence: 7 (+1)

Spirit: 9 (+1)

】

Due to frequent spellcasting, his spirit and intelligence grew by one point respectively.

Yiye Zhiqiu was quite satisfied with the current attribute growth rhythm.

Just as he was silently feeling the changes in his spiritual power, the Pig-head Knight suddenly said.

"By the way brothers, since the 2nd floor is no longer challenging, why don't we go to the 3rd floor and take a look?"

Tauren Warrior: "It's no longer challenging... do you think the battle just now was easy?"

Pig-head Knight: "Cough... isn't it that no one was hurt."

Tauren Warrior: "..."

Watching Hu Wan thought seriously for a moment and said.

"This idea is actually not bad... I also think it's about time we pushed down to the lower floors."

Yiye Zhiqiu said with a smile.

"Since everyone has no opinion, let's go together... it just so happens I also plan to go to Iron Tooth City on the third floor to take a look, I heard there are many good things there."

The Pig-head Knight smiled shyly.

"Hehe, actually I planned the same... yesterday brother Yikou promised me on the forum that he would enchant my axe for free, when the time comes I'll find a way to help you guys get a freebie too."

Hearing the word "free," a subtle expression appeared on Watching Hu Wan's face.

Intuition told him that this thing must not be cheap.

"No need... if there is a need, I will let the NPC enchant it for me."

A look of regret appeared on the Pig-head Knight's face.

"Is that so... that's a pity, I heard he made a lot of good things."

The Tauren Warrior sweated profusely.

"Brother, calm down, you can search the forum for that guy's reputation, can he let you take advantage?"

Watching Hu Wan nodded.

"+1, that guy's understanding of good things is probably not in the same dimension as normal people."

As soon as this sentence came out of his mouth, he suddenly remembered that the guy in front of him didn't seem to be a normal person either.

Two abnormal people getting together... birds of a feather flocking together didn't seem to be a problem? Sure enough—

Brother Pig-head was still trying to defend Yikou Menle Chemical Pool.

"It's different! This time it's Nether Script, not explosives!"

Looking at the Pig-head Knight who was still trying hard to explain, Yiye Zhiqiu stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, smiling to smooth things over.

"No matter what, we'll know when we go take a look in a while."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 100 =====